From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:22:01 -0500 Message-ID: <42BF9B09.8020906@slaphack.com> References: <200506270505.j5R55Zsx005315@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200506270505.j5R55Zsx005315@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Horst von Brand Cc: Hans Reiser , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Lincoln Dale , Gregory Maxwell , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Horst von Brand wrote: > David Masover wrote: > >>Hans Reiser wrote: > > > [...] > > >>>Reiser4 plugins are not per user, but per kernel. They are compiled >>>in. The model is intended to ease the development process, nothing >>>more. Apologies if the naming suggests more. > > > What do you gain by this? It is just a kernel configuration option of > sorts? Just name mangling of existing mechanisms for no good reason at all? I don't know why it's named "plugins", but the mechanism itself gains a lot. For one thing, certain new "plugins" for new kinds of files (cryptocompressed files, for instance) can be almost as easy as new plugins for (say) XMMS. Still, Hans, it's high time to either rename these "plugins" or start talking about bytecode engines... >>But, to avoid confusion, the inclusion of a crytocompress plugin in a >>given kernel doesn't mean that all files accessed from that kernel are >>encrypted and compressed. It just means that you can pick an individual >>file and set it to be transparently encrypted/compressed. >> >>That is what I meant by "enabled". Not per-user, but per-file. > > > Wonderful! I carefully "transparently encrypt" my secret files, so > /everybody/ can read them! Now /that/ is progress! Explain to me how this is worse than how you currently encrypt your secret files? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQr+bCHgHNmZLgCUhAQKnag/8DF1PjfQwEYaJWUOOY0roqn6b+/L8X/X1 kgFE3SyPJkNRuY6X/J3EQUht5v/EBEbk2ZE/oTWB+HGEeUv1juUmG7z2rWCvi8sY tXPG28iqOAjwvZa+2aq8o4ptW0+gaXVIbrNGEaWTXPgbxdxtoVMOAakBJl3FUchK pwZWJD+msuQuPFc42zQ3Zdvp+4/NhhC6qcSpZ9DGXHO9uDJDDdl3Xgf9+qOD+W7Y Bz4sGfNphIbJjydHs0DdcZPh49MhS+qd48Qw1WFskalF9dhZhHFq3MKIBFbg8bA8 MX9yY5XHrNPJqJXF96YtcJV9nZcXh4qEz81/JC7V+VYm/BME20a0jtUt5bMtGRjj kC8FxzVvamOmeXnzRnU2DKIlGlfTUmK1u6wQpMsoiwPZr9WH7WRxiP/tHPVYQbBc gPpg7POOz3M6Q3guZMGTxeYu7kHJm8s/zJVwXm04fz+03hrkab1q/w4cT0SaX4Pv naipO7nkdr5qoRzF2sBSZAsnauxGa0ViR0TP715FN+oX0ZRiSQcgEGc+zXz6qPb5 bSz29jG1iGkrepB6LU88gMZiyxc2qK1SHpZlKjn9iPKqpxpwEtpQToUBhRsAlFBv 9Z6KxrQYrUYfJ/Z9ktIUuvsvN3zbnnc7tmZGYNisqm03dq61kguAwOV66INSlYDj gFaw23Z9X58= =xsgf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----